Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof [رجب فوق صفيح ساخن] (Adel Imam) - (1979)

Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof (1979) - (Adel Imam) Egyptian undated rerelease one-sheet

This film was an important milestone in the career of Adel Imam, best known in the West for his starring role in the 2006 Marwan Hamed film The Yacoubian Building [emaret ya'qubian]. This is a 27" x 39" undated rerelease Egyptian film poster designed by Moaty to promote the 1979 128-minute Ahmed Fouad color film Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof [ragab fou' safeeh sakhen] starring Adel Imam based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Ebrahim Maher with cinematography by Essam Farid. Plot summary: The people in Ragab's [Adel Imam] village pooled their money to buy a plow and sent him to Cairo to buy it. As soon as he got there he met Bolbol, [Sa'eed Saleh] a professional thief, who stole the money the people of Ragab's village had given him, then disappeared in the Cairo crowds. Ragab went looking for him. He ended up in a nightclub, where he met Bobbol's friend Eglal [Nahed Sherif], the owner of a nighclub. Bolbol had seen Ragab and fled with the money. When Ragab found him he claimed to have lost all the money gambling. Ragab tried to find work. When that failed he asked Bolbol to teach him how to gamble. After he learned how to do this he won a lot of money, but one of the ones who lost money to him went after him with the intent of killing him; Bolbol tried to defend Ragab and suffered a few stab wounds. The police intervened and arrested all of them. Ragab did not return to his village. After his release he took a job in Cairo looking for newcomers from rural areas and upper Egypt so he could swindle them.

In Egypt Today September 2004 Sherif Awad said of this film: "Comedian Adel Imam made cinema history with Ragab Fouk Safeeh Sakhen ([Ragab on a Hot Tin Roof], 1979). The film broke all previous box-office records and spent 37 weeks in theaters. Throughout the past two decades, he has been the uncontested king of the box office, churning out roles in every conceivable genre. Now in his fifties, Imam is still going strong."

Cast and crew: Adel Imam, Nahed Sherif, Sa'eed Saleh, Wahid Seif, Zuzu Shakeeb, Ahmed Fouad, Essam Farid, Mimi Gamal, Aly El Cherif, Soad Hussein, Nahed Gabr, George Sidhum, Madhar Abol Naga, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Hafez Amin, Essam Farid, Maher Ibrahim, Farouk Falawkas, Samie Al-Adel, Amima Salim, Ahmed Amer, Sha'ban Taha, Mahmoud al-Eraqi, Mona Abdullah, Fawzi Ibrahim

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Drug Users [المساطيل] - (Laila Eloui) - (1990)

Drug Users [المساطيل] (1990) - (Leila Eloui) Egyptian one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour to promote the 1990 108-minute Hussein Kamal color film Drug Users [al-masatil المساطيل] starring Laila Eloui based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Wahid Hamid with cinematography by Ibrahim Saleh. Plot summary: A group of lost youth were involved in drug abuse and crime and they had committed a murder. Nadia [Lalia Eloui] was the most prominent among them. She was in love with Samir but he refused to marry her because she was too poor. She had to go away to marry a rich man, but it only lasted three months, and when she returned she found her father had lost his job, and she had also lost hers. She took up prostitution and began associating with a bad group of people who would use drugs together to forget the miserable realities of their lives. Among these people was the sexually impotent Ahmad, who believed drugs might cure him. Another was Talaat, a corrupt court worker who illegitimately sold judicial documents. There was also an unemployed man named Abbas who had married a wealthy cafe owner and then killed her to get her money. Samir was unable to find happiness with his wife, whom he did not love, so he broke into the gathering of drug users to be with Nadia, whom he did love, but he refused to tell them his story. They forced him to take an overdose of heroin, which killed him; then they they threw his body into the Nile. Nadia confessed to the police she had been with the drug users and had been responsible for Samir's death.

Cast and crew: Hussein Kamal, Negah El-Mogui, Hassan Hosny, Ahmed Maher, Soad Hussein, Mahmoud Hemida, Laila Eloui, Ibrahim Saleh, Wahid Hamid, Hendia, Soad Hussein

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